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Daniel Tisch to speak at the World Public Relations Forum

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Daniel Tisch is the latest addition to an exciting speaker line-up at the World Public Relations Forum. Daniel is widely known as an international public relations practitioner, speaker, writer and industry leader. He is the Chair of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management, the confederation of the world’s major communications industry associations, a Fellow of the Canadian Public Relations Society and CEO of Argyle Communications, one of Canada’s premier independent public relations firms.

Daniel spent the first eight years of his career in the Canadian government, where he held various roles including serving as Senior Policy Advisor and Acting Chief of Staff to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Canadian delegation to the 1993 G7 Summit in Tokyo, served as a media spokesman in various areas of government, and played a central role in ground breaking policy and legislation affecting the information and communications industries.

As a consultant, Dan has earned more than 100 major communications industry awards and advised some of the world’s most respected organisations. He is known for his expertise in issues and crisis management, serving in 2009 as lead communications advisor to an industry affected by the largest food recall in North American history. Daniel’s other areas of practice include executive spokesperson training, stakeholder engagement and reputation and brand management strategy.

His firm, Argyle Communications, is the only two-time winner of the International Association of Business Communicators’ Jake Wittmer Award for research-based communications.

Daniel is also known as a speaker, blogger, media commentator and educator. In his Global Alliance role, he has spoken at major conferences in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Dan has lectured on public relations at Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada)

since 1996 and contributed to leading public relations and marketing textbooks. He appears regularly in

broadcast, print and online media, including recent comments in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Reuters, PR Week Global Thinktank and Politico, the leading U.S. political magazine. He also comments on the changing global communications landscape on his blog, Reputation and Reality.

Born in Madrid, Spain, and raised in Toronto, Daniel speaks English, French and Spanish. He holds two degrees from Queen’s University — a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and a Master of Business Administration (specialising in marketing).

Among his many volunteer commitments, Dan is a member of the Queen’s University Board of Trustees, a leader in the international Scouting movement and a founder and co-chair of Social Venture Partners Toronto.

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CPRS’s youngest Fellow and founder of Valin Strategic Communications, Jean Valin, joins the speaker line up

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With over 30 years of experience across the Canadian government’s high profile national issues including the gun control program; anti-terrorism and organised crime legislation; same sex marriage legislation; the launch of ‘Service Canada-Canada’s one-stop for all government services’ as well as a transportation policy for air, road and marine safety and security issues, award winning PR practitioner, Jean Valin, is another exciting addition to the speaker line up at the World Public Relations Forum held from 18-20 November 2012 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

In 2000, Mr Valin became a founding member of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management (GA), a confederation organisation of more than 70 major PR associations around the world representing over 170,000 members. He was Chairman of the GA from 2004-2005 and continues now to serve as ambassador-at-large. In 2008, he received the President’s medal from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) in the UK and the Award of Attainment from the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) in 2010. The GA is the initiator of the World Public Relations Forum.

Since 1987 Valin has been an active part in the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) and became the youngest CPRS member ever to be called to the College of Fellows following many years of active involvement in the association, including serving as National President from 1996-1997.

Mr. Valin, an accomplished speaker on the role of ethics in communicating with the public, the power of public relations to support business of organisational objectives and social media and how it transforms the way organisations relate to their publics, has delivered many keynote addresses at major national and international conferences and is sure to bring plenty of insights to the World Public Relations Forum.

Mr Valin’s career began in broadcasting with Radio Canada and a private radio station in the Ottawa region. He now owns and runs his own business, Valin Strategic Communication, and is married and has two sons and two grand-daughters.

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